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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter & Gamble's Pixel Visualization Room
From the SAS ComBlog: A description of an effort at Procter & Gamble to provide data visualization and analytics support: "... P&G colleagues collaborate in what...
From Putting People First
Audio of EPIC 2011 presentations
The organisers of the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC 2011) conference have posted audio of the keynotes and most of the presentations. The conference took...
From Schneier on Security
Twofish Mentioned in Thriller Novel
I've been told that the Twofish encryption algorithm is mentioned in the book Abuse of Power, in the first paragraph of Chapter 3. Did rhe terrorists use it?...
From Putting People First
Want to create a great product? First, forget
User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Robert Hoekman, Jr lists three criteria to help you develop a useful...
From Putting People First
Intentional environments: designing a culture of co-creation
Elements such as social dynamics, communication styles, and creative inspiration deeply affect our experience of work and what we create. While most of us don’t...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics Resources
I attended an IBM seminar on predictive methods a few weeks ago. I thought it was well constructed and worth while. In reviewing some of their material I seePrediction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Privacy in a GPS World
With GPS attached to phone and cars and even simpler devices, what is the future of locational privacy? What are the privacy implications? By Orin Kerr and others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Free Big Data Tablet Tool
IBM Offers Free Big Data Analysis Tool for iPads. I have recently been looking at tools for tablets that make data easy to visualize quickly. Will take a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zakta as a Social Curation Platform
I have mentioned Zakta a number of times here, I have communicated with some of the founders of the idea from inside and outside the enterprise for years. They...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pushing the
An interesting example in today’s New York Times
From Computational Complexity
John McCarthy (1927-2011)
First Steve and then Dennis and now we have the death of a third computing pioneer this month. John McCarthy passed away earlier this week at the age of 84. McCarthy...
From Putting People First
Games, Life and Utopia conference
Games, Life and Utopia is a half-day event in Pottsdam, Germany on 11 November, that is all about gamification, serious games, learning and play. It
From Schneier on Security
NSA Acronyms
The second document in this file is the recently unclassified "Guide to Historical Cryptologic Acronyms and Abbreviations, 1940-1980," from the NSA Note that there...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Mini-Grants for Collaborative Projects to Include Disabled Youth in CS
Passing along this announcement from the CSTA Blast announcement list. Computer science has a lot of opportunity to help differently abled people but to maximize...
From Wild WebMink
Nothing New
Watching an interesting TED Talk by Amber Case, I was reminded of a long-term guiding principle I have followed when faced with novelty. It’s an old idea that’s...
From My Biased Coin
An Exceptional Exponential Embedding
This week in class I get to teach one of my favorite probability arguments, which makes use of a very unusual embedding. Here's a short description (for the longer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Natural User Search Interfaces
In CACM: On 'Natural' Search User Interfaces: Users will speak rather than type, watch video rather than read, and use technology socially rather than alone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John McCarthy, Father of AI and Lisp Dies
We met John McCarthy at Stanford University, sometime in the 1980s. He was a very enthusiastic promoter of AI and in particular the use of game playing systems...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Activities for CS Ed Week
CSEdWeek (December 4 through 10) is quickly approaching. This is an opportunity to spotlight your students and your program. Don't delay in making some plans and...